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Editorial office searched on the eve of World Press Freedom Day
On 2 May, on the eve of World Press Freedom Day, which is celebrated on 3 May, the office of Belarusian independent radio station “Racyja” in Minsk was searched. The police seized the office equipment.
Public lecture by Iryna Sushko, a prominent Ukrainian expert on EU visa and migration policy
On behalf of the VISA-FREE travel campaign “Go Europe! Go Belarus!” and NGO Belarus Watch, we would like to invite you to a public lecture by Iryna Sushko, a prominent Ukrainian expert on EU visa and migration policy.
The lecture “Ways for the Eastern Partnership States to Join Visa-Free Europe” will take place on 11 May at 2 pm at the Belarusian Human Rights House in exile in Vilnius (Latako str. 3).
Use of death penalty continues in Belarus despite international pressure
Capital punishment in the Republic of Belarus continues to violate international human rights standards and mechanisms, and denies basic human dignities
Belarusian political prisoner’s right of correspondence resitricted
Political prisoner Siarhei Kavalenka (right), who has recently stopped hunger strike, is currently held in a psychiatric hospital “Navinki”, where he has been sent to for a forced psychiatric examination. The activist’s wife speaks about his current condition and about the way he was treated in the Vitsba-3 colony.
Appeal for immediate release and full rehabilitation of all political prisoners
Arbitrary detention is used in Belarus against political opponents and persons exercising their freedoms of conscience, opinion and expression. The use of arbitrary detention as a tool of systematic repression of critical voices constitutes a serious violation of human rights as the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention underlines. We urge the authorities of the Republic of Belarus to release all political prisoners and to compensate them for the harm suffered.
UN calls for release of all political prisoners
At least 13 political prisoners remain behind bars in Belarus, two weeks after the release of the former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau.
Terrorist attack survivor: “I was kidnapped”
Alena Lebiadzinskaya (right), a last year’s Minsk metro blast survivor, says she was abducted by two unidentified men in plain clothes, who injured her and took her to the police for holding up a poster reading “The government refused to help”.
Belarus frees jailed opposition leader
Belarussian opposition politician and 2010 presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau was released from prison on Saturday.
Ex-political prisoner Aliaksandr Malchanau back behind bars
Former political prisoner, 23-year-old Aliaksandr Malchanau (right) was found guilty of stealing scrap metal from a closed workshop of a metal stamping plant. The ex-prisoner had no other ways to make a living.